Kamen Rider Date A Live

Looking at the Grim Reaper Agitω, who resembled a wax statue, Shido calmly walked behind him, gazing at the enemy who had driven him to the brink of death in his past memories. If it hadn't been for Shiori sacrificing herself to save him, he would probably be dead here already.

But it was precisely because of that bloody lesson that Shido White began to truly transform, becoming a true warrior—however, this transformation was not a good one. Even with everyone's comfort and the company of Shiori's spirit, Shido White could never let go of the fact that he had caused Shiori to be reduced to only appearing as a spirit, unable to show any emotion.

Therefore, in pursuit of power, and to obtain the ability to protect the most important person and the most important thing in his life at all times, Shido the White Knight abandoned his confusion, his hesitation, and his powerlessness—and feeling Shido the White Knight's resolve, the power of light responded to him, causing him to evolve rapidly, until that moment…

For some reason, after Shido returned from the other world, Origami transformed into a spirit and began fighting against the spirits. Needless to say, because Shido was in the other world and the spiritual energy channel was not connected, all the remaining spirits were powerless to fight back. If Kurumi hadn't acted decisively and stalled for a while, allowing everyone to hide in the villa, Tohka and the others would have been unable to resist Origami's attack as a spirit.

Later, Kurumi somehow managed to dissuade Origami, causing her to disappear for a while. But then, the nightmare returned.

Origami inexplicably reversed her nature, transforming from an angel into a demon and initiating large-scale destruction, causing severe damage to the entire Tiangong City and resulting in countless deaths. The entire city was also placed under lockdown. AST and DEM also launched attacks, with only one goal: to eliminate Origami!

However, even the world's strongest, who is indeed capable of killing Origami in a one-on-one fight, is not so easy to break through Origami's indiscriminate attacks and all-around defense after her reversal. Moreover, the world's strongest is not yet in her full form.

However, just when everyone was at a loss, Shido, who had finally returned from the other world, and Tohka and the others took action together—their purpose, of course, was to protect Origami and restore her from the reversed state.

However, since all the spirits are only in limited spirit armor and their power is not fully restored, they can only deal with the large number of AST and DEM ordinary and elite magicians. But the world's strongest and berserk Origami, these two powerful beings, need to be dealt with by Shido White at the same time.

Although Shido White at that time was already strong enough to fight a Pokémon at full power and had a slight advantage over the world's strongest Pokémon, no matter what, facing them simultaneously, even Shido White would not have the upper hand. In fact, he couldn't even go all out against one of them. Compared to the world's strongest Pokémon's unrestrained all-out attack, Shido White's hesitant attacks against Origami would only harm himself.

However, whether by coincidence or luck, in this battle, Shido the White, whose power of light had already reached the limit that the human race could withstand, finally took the last step and evolved!

As White Shido evolved, a surge of light began to spread throughout Tengu City—the wounded began to heal rapidly, the panicked began to calm down, the barrage of bullets began to shatter, the beams of light began to dissipate, the reversed demon was forcibly sealed, and everyone's fighting spirit vanished.

All people could only look up to the birth of God.

From that moment on, Shido Shiro became the White God, the White God who controls the explosive light.

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"Instead of dwelling on the past, it's better to keep moving forward... Well, Mr. Otaku's words are sometimes quite reliable after all."

Shido chuckled softly, and as he muttered to himself, he touched the Shinigami agitω with his palm and then gently tapped it three times.

hum-

As if in response, three points of light suddenly appeared on the chest of the Grim Reaper, and those three points of light, needless to say, were the Philosopher's Stone, the Philosopher's Pillar, and the Millennium Puzzle.

———The Spiritual World———

"Ugh...!!"

Because of that inexplicable impulse and the chains, and even more so because of his desire to save Kurumi, Shido, who had lost consciousness after being bound by the chains, is now waking up.

"...Light...this light is..."

Even though he was in the darkness of unconsciousness, his eyes seemed to be able to catch a glimmer of light, and feeling this warm, familiar light, Shido opened his eyes.

"Well!"

Opening his eyes, Shido was met with a blinding white light. This was so intense that Shido, who had been trapped in darkness, felt the light's glare. However, Shido, whose mental strength was already formidable, quickly adapted and saw the true nature of the white light.

The blinding light was actually a tunnel of light radiating from it. Although the end was nowhere in sight, Shido's first thought upon seeing this tunnel of light was that by walking through it, he could leave this place and regain control of his body.

Shido didn't understand why he thought this way, but perhaps he didn't need to understand, because given the current situation, even if it was a trap, he had to go through it!

Although I don't know what the situation is like outside... I have to go!

If I stop moving forward now... I might lose the most important thing!

With his eyes burning with an inextinguishable flame again, and the annoying, impulsive voice gone, Shido mustered all his strength and took a step forward.

Clang! Clang!

The sound of metal clashing reached Shido's ears, and only then did he finally realize the strangeness within himself.

His limbs and body were all bound by jet-black chains, the strange weight of which made it difficult for him to move. The chains on his limbs were especially long. After binding his limbs (his feet were not bound, but his legs) into a large iron ball (about one meter in diameter), there were four more chains, each four or five meters long, lying on the ground.

"These are those chains from before, tsk! I can't break free!" Shido, who only then realized the strange thing about his body, looked at his limbs and body bound into a ball and was speechless for a moment. But then, he quickly used his strength and began to try to break free from these dark chains.

But unexpectedly, even with Shido's full strength, the chain he gripped tightly didn't break at all, not even a crack appeared.

"Damn it! Since that's how it is..." Shido's eyes narrowed, and then, sensing Shido's call, the belt appeared around Shido's waist, which was bound by chains. At the same time, the belt snapped and transformed into its sublimated form, beginning to vibrate.

Buzz—! ! !

Amidst that soft hum, Shido transformed into the agitω·burningform, a form with flames engulfing his entire body and resembling biological skin armor!

"Ugh...drink...ahh ...

Using all his strength, he gripped the chains tightly, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound, and then flames erupted from burning agitω's body!

With agitω's roar, the flames burned brighter and brighter, and the temperature rose higher and higher. If an ordinary person were standing here, they might be burned to ashes in a short time! To put it bluntly, agitω was practically a high-temperature incinerator at this moment!

However, even in such an environment, those pitch-black chains remained unmoved, not only not burning, but not even turning red!

It was as if the flames hadn't even touched the chains!

"……hateful!!!"

The flames burned for four or five minutes, but looking at the chains that showed no sign of turning red, even as they burned, I felt powerless and desperate.

"If it can't be burned, then let's move forward with this attitude!"

Realizing that he couldn't burn away the chains at this moment, he could only come up with a clumsy solution: to keep moving forward. Although it was indeed a clumsy method, it was still much better than doing nothing and just trying to burn the chains.

However, after burning agitω for a minute and hadn't even taken a few steps, a voice suddenly rang out in this mental space.

"Even if you reach the end of the path using this clumsy method, you still won't be able to get out of here—because the chains that bind you are the embodiment of your own inner knots."

"who!?"

Hearing this androgynous voice, from which no gender could be discerned, Burning agitω's only freely moving head began to look around—and of course, no matter how it looked, there was nothing around except itself.

"Is the question of who I am important? I can tell you that the situation outside is not good right now! Three corrupted Heroic Spirits whose bodies are controlled by the Evil of this World, and Kirei Kotomine who has abandoned his human identity and become part of the Evil of this World, have lost the continuous magical power support from the Evil of this World, but they have now plunged the Heroic Spirits below and Kiritsugu Emiya into a fierce battle."

"What?! Damn it! These annoying chains...!!!"

Upon hearing about his companion's current situation, Burning agitω angrily bit his lip and gripped the chains tightly with both hands, as if he was determined to crush them!

He was furious at his own weakness and incompetence, furious at being trapped here... If he couldn't escape now, his own future, everyone's future, the future of this world—even if it didn't necessarily have much to do with him—if this world were to be destroyed because he was trapped here... he couldn't forgive himself!

Overwhelmed by self-reproach, agitω bit her lips until they bled, and her fingers clenched so tightly they cracked against her bones.

Instead of blaming yourself, take this opportunity to figure things out. Your real problem isn't just that you've started to only trust yourself, but more so because you've been overthinking the future.

The mysterious voice hit the nail on the head, pointing out the key to burning agitω's true inner conflict.

No more confusion in the 221st chapter

No more confusion in the 221st chapter

Have I been overthinking the future?

...Maybe so, that's for sure, and it wasn't just that mysterious voice that brought it up, Rider and Archer also said similar things to me.

————In my memories————

Rider—Shido, don't look too far ahead. All we can hold onto is the present.

archer—Do not aim too high or look too far ahead.

—————End of Memories————

Recalling what happened in the distant years of 165 and 204, Burningagitω felt a mix of disbelief and nostalgia—it felt like two or three months had passed in less than three days. It was truly unbelievable.

However incredible it may seem, for Burningagitω, the time interval was only two or three days. It would be strange if he couldn't remember those words. He hadn't thought about them deeply before because he found it troublesome, but now, Burningagitω began to ponder the meaning of these two sentences.

At the same time, the mysterious voice seemed to know what Burning agitω was thinking and spoke.

"That's right, just think about it. Think carefully about what you can grasp in the present and what future you can see."

"You are the one who can break the chains that are the embodiment of your inner turmoil, and you are also the one who can make them even more unbreakable. Carefully consider what the Rider and Archer are saying to you; it will definitely help."

"Finally, let me give you a friendly reminder: Do you want to defeat the evil of this world? Your current power is not enough, not even if you become Shining. However, if you can take advantage of the opportunity to break through your inner knot and elevate yourself to Shining, I can help you and give you the possibility of defeating the evil of this world."

The mysterious voice paused, as if organizing its vocabulary, and after a short while, spoke.

"The flames are burning fiercely, radiating their own light and releasing their own heat. But the moment when the flames are truly most dazzling, most powerful, and most rapid is the instant they begin to burn... If you seize that instant, then you can gain new power—remember this, I won't say it a second time."

"So, our next meeting will be after you break through the chains and rush through the tunnel of light I've prepared for you—don't question who I am, because if it were you, you'd know the answer soon enough, wouldn't you? And by now, you've already guessed a little bit, haven't you?"

The mysterious voice left behind this profound statement and then fell silent. Burning agitω was quietly pondering, because whether it was the words of the Rider and Archer, the meaning to himself in the present and future, or the identity of that mysterious voice, all required quiet reflection.

However, the last question to consider, as the mysterious voice said, is something that Burningagitω has vaguely understood: the owner of that mysterious voice—although the voice is neither male nor female, and its gender is impossible to discern, the tone is extremely familiar to him…

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What is the present? And what is the future?

What exactly does Rider mean by that? Why does Archer's hint say that?

And finally, what does the present and the future mean to me?

Five questions are presented to Burningagitω, waiting for Burningagitω to unravel the truth behind these five questions.

Don't be impatient. Especially in times like these, you need to calmly and rationally consider the significance of these five questions. Moreover, these five questions are by no means unsolvable, nor are they unrelated. As long as you are willing to think about them seriously, there will definitely be solutions.

There's no why, because this is a personal matter. Even if you don't understand yourself, you will definitely understand yourself, because only you can truly manage yourself.

So, let's begin the analysis—the key words are the present, the future, the present we hold tight to, lofty aspirations, and the past and future for ourselves.

After organizing the information in my mind and eliminating excessive distractions, I identified the key points of my five questions and began to analyze them.

Now, the answer to unlocking your inner knot lies hidden beneath these five key points. Simply solve these five puzzle pieces, and the five keys obtained will unlock the answer locked within your own heart.

Thinking this way, I lit agitω and began to ponder.

The first question—now, what is it?

In layman's terms, the present moment is the one second you experience right now. It's not the past you know from the previous second, nor the unknown future of the next second, but the moment of time you are in and can control.

Of course, this is just one way to understand the word "now". "Now" can also be understood as proof of one's existence, proof of one's life, or, more broadly, the world in which one exists now - the present world, this life.

This is now.

The second question is, what about the future?

In a broad sense, the future is your next second of the present, the life you are about to experience, the things that are going to happen, the present that has not yet arrived, the events that have not yet happened, your next life, and so on. Just looking at the meaning implied by the word 'future', the future is obviously much more than the present.

However, although that's the case, the true meaning that the future represents from beginning to end, and the meaning that most people use most often, is the time from now on. The future is not just a period of time, nor just a moment, nor does it belong only to living beings. Everything in the world has a future. Of course, everything in the world also has a present and a past.

To put it more generally, whether it's the present, the future, or the past, these three words are just expressions of the concept of time.

The third question is, what exactly does "rider" mean?

Shido, don't look too far ahead. All we can hold onto is the present.

Looking too far ahead... perhaps Rider wasn't wrong. I do look far ahead, but even now, I don't think I'm wrong, because only by looking further ahead can I better grasp the present.